The Smurfs enjoyed an almost impossibly long reign on top of the cartoon mountain, with it's show surviving much longer than most any other animated series. Compared to most of the dreck found on Saturday morning television programming during those days, Smurfs was a treasure. The stories were actually kinda interesting, if in a zany bluish Gargamelly Smurfy way. There's been several Smurf Christmas specials over the years, and today we'll take a look at the first: The Smurfs Christmas Special. You know it's the first because they didn't break out with the zippy creative titles yet.
There really isn't any special plot devices in this one; it plays out just like any other Smurfs episode, only this one happens to take place on Christmas Eve. The only thing remotely Christmassy about it is that singing carols can sometime inspire the gods to work their magic and save the day for no readily apparent reason. |